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- The “fuzzy front end” of innovation
This last bit of the MBA is, like many, heavy on heavy models and theoretical underpinning, as you’d expect. But through this abstract fog occasionally shines a particularly relevant bit of research that pulls dozens of strands of thought together.
Smith and Reinersten’s The Fuzzy Front End is such a bit of work. Put simply, it’s [...]
- We’re all technology managers now
Interesting stuff to report from the last bit of my MBA, which I’m revising this week for an exam on Tuesday (last one! After three and a half stricken years! Yay!).
The module is all about tech management, and the course material strongly supports the thought that media companies will have to become as adept [...]
- The seven deadly sins for new products
With the start of the next MBA module only weeks away, it’s time to get back in the saddle. Ahoy, FT.
And, by luck, there’s an interesting wee
- Too busy for words
Trendsetters.com highlights “time compression” as a new thing. Of course, we’ve been muttering darkly about the speeding up of the world for some time, but Michael Tchong (Trendscape’s founder) gathers together some interesting examples of how the world is speeding up. Better still - and setting this apart from the more common, technocratic view of [...]
- Coates’ personality types
Tom Coates sets off on a bold effort to define personality types. Eschewing Belbin’s definitive-but-dull descriptors - completer finisher, plant, resource investigator, and so on - he comes up with his Elf/Dwarf, Pirate/Ninja axis. As he notes, correctly, his crowning achievement is the development of a graph - a visual tool vital to acceptance in [...]
- Blogging liiiiiive - from Crewe
And so to sunny Crewe (actually completely bloody freezing, and cloudy), for a weekend of Open Uni Business School strategy stuff. We’re housed in a modern conference centre/hotel/golf course affair - the kind of place they film a lot of Footballers’ Wives, or Dream Team. Very modern, all very clean, big meandering drive with perfect [...]
- The futility of banning tobacco advertising
It’s rare that anything in an MBA textbook makes me laugh out loud, frankly. Porter’s five forces, good ol’ Lancaster and Massingham - all nice chaps, I’m sure, probably a scream down the pub, but their academic stuff isn’t chuckle-a-minute material. But one exhibit, in Robert Grant’s Contemporary Strategy Analysis did the trick, even if [...]
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